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Post by Funky George! on Apr 7, 2009 13:55:59 GMT -5
The Shining is just so good.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:56:03 GMT -5
9. 'Halloween' (1978)
It was all downhill from here on out for Jamie Lee Curtis. And we mean that. Would she ever scream like this again? Hide in a closet while a very persistent Michael Myers spent about, oh, say, 78 minutes trying to hack through the door? Did we mention she's related to the killer? Little known fact: John Carpenter wrote the theme song himself. Genius like that doesn't come along many times in a lifetime, folks.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 13:56:10 GMT -5
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) Directed by Roman Polanski More conspiracy thriller than horror movie, Baby nurses a mother lode of phobias. As Rosemary (Mia Farrow) slowly intuits she's been raped by Satan, she wrestles a myriad of believable demons: uncaring doctors, intrusive neighbors (primarily Ruth Gordon, who copped an Oscar), and a monstrously self-centered husband (John Cassavetes). Farrow's alarming enactment of emaciated desperation got a spur from then husband Frank Sinatra's offscreen behavior: She was devastated when he initiated a divorce in mid-production. Meanwhile, Charles Grodin's turn as a chilly obstetrician made him an unpopular dinner guest. ''When I sat, women moved,'' he says. ''I had to go on Johnny Carson to show people I'm a nice guy.''
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:56:21 GMT -5
8. 'Evil Dead II' (1987)
Sam Raimi is now a famous Hollywood director, but long before he directed "Spiderman" he all but invented the horror/comedy genre with this 1987 classic. The film features cult-movie icon Bruce Campbell as a hapless hero defending himself from hordes of demons. Ever been on a roller coaster? That's what watching "Evil Dead II" is like — lots of screams.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:56:38 GMT -5
7. 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978)
Director George Romero single handedly created the zombie genre with "Night of the Living Dead." But it was the sequel, "Dawn of the Dead" that he really cranked the scares up exponentially by featuring some of the goriest scenes ever committed to film. It's no wonder the film was banned in 17 countries.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 13:56:39 GMT -5
POLTERGEIST (1982) Directed by Tobe Hooper Based on a story by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist was released just one week before E.T., and it seemed like the latter movie's evil twin. Both were tales of suburban California families whose lives are upended by otherworldly invaders, but while E.T. seemed a Christian parable of death and resurrection, Poltergeist had a more sinister take on the afterlife. Its haunted house was a piece of the American dream literally built on a corrupt foundation, a graveyard full of unsettled ghosts. Even the film's most benign elements — the toys in the closet, blond moppet Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke), and kindly medium Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein) — seemed full of ominous dread. That three of the franchise's stars suffered untimely deaths led to talk of an offscreen curse, which surviving cast members dismiss and refuse to discuss, but which makes the film that much creepier.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:56:54 GMT -5
6. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978)
Why is my family acting so strangely? Why do they keep insisting that I go to sleep? What are these strange plants I see suddenly sprouting up? These are the important questions dealt with in this classic sci-fi thriller. Incidentally, if you are a big fan of uplifting endings (like the one tacked on to the original 1956 version) ... consider a different flick.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:57:09 GMT -5
5. 'Alien' (1979)
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Sigourney Weaver: hot. Alien monster: ugly. Throw them together in a futuristic, highly stylized space battleground: beautiful. And terrifying. "Alien" was important not least because it showed that the science-fiction horror genre was one of possibility — this movie was also intelligently rendered, psychologically powerful, and, well, gross. Where else can find a bloody creature being birthed from a human surrogate? (For the answer, see number 43, "The Brood.")
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:57:27 GMT -5
4. 'The Ring' (2002)
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Naomi Watts. Very good looking, yes. Sassy? Yep. Try squaring her off against a weird chick who really wants to climb out of a well and kill people and eat their guts. OK, well maybe she doesn't want to eat their guts. But she does a good job of killing a lot of people in this cinematically beautiful horror romp -- and she scares the bejeezus out of Naomi Watts (right) in the process. Hey, that little kid playing the doomed son is cute, but kinda freaky. Extra points for that.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:57:44 GMT -5
3. 'Rec' (2007)
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Spanish reporter Angela Vidal is looking for a good story. And, when she follows a group of firefighters on an emergency call to a creepy apartment building she gets more than she bargained for. A little girl locked in a penthouse, a zombie dog, dimly lit rooms, a screaming old lady, the list of scary stuff in this flick is a mile long. Knowing a good thing when they see it, Hollywood is producing its own version called "Quarantine." Stick with the original.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:58:00 GMT -5
SPAIN BABY
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:58:17 GMT -5
2. 'Ju-on' (2000)
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Dateline, Japan: Jealous of his wife's love for another man, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Better than the Sarah Michelle Gellar slog-fest ("The Grudge") that followed this flick, "Ju-on" is edgy — it even allows you some time to get comfortable before the heavy breathing, black blood, and phantasmagoric preschoolers start popping out of the woodwork like drunk termites. Put on a helmet, and dive in.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Apr 7, 2009 13:58:33 GMT -5
1. 'The Thing' (1982)
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"Scariest movie . . . ever!" We mean it. The film follows a crew stationed at an Antarctic base stalked by a shape-shifting alien. Which member of the crew is the alien? The crew doesn't know, and neither does the audience until the creature begins one of its stomach churning transformations. If the scene where the guy's head sprouting insect legs to escape doesn't give you nightmares consult a therapist immediately.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 13:59:35 GMT -5
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) Directed by Wes Craven The screen debut of the character who gave striped sweaters a bad name, Nightmare introduces a suburban monster who stalks teens while they sleep. Craven makes the most banal aspects of adolescence hellish, whether it's turning the sanctity of childhood bedrooms into murder zones or a phone into a demonic tongue. (And ''One, two, Freddy's coming for you...'' irrevocably changed the way we feel about playground chants.) Freddy eventually turned into an all-too-jokey shadow of himself — but there's nothing funny about him in this first installment. Bonus: A young Johnny Depp gets eaten alive by a bed.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 14:00:16 GMT -5
THE THING (1982) Directed by John Carpenter A loose remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi Cold War allegory, Carpenter's Thing isn't concerned with messages; it's just a terrifying meditation on paranoia and subzero dread as a group of scientists at the South Pole (led by Kurt Russell) is infiltrated by an alien that assumes the bodies of its victims in very messy ways. And despite its many gross-out F/X, no moment in the movie is more unsettling than watching cuddly Quaker Oatmeal pitchman Wilford Brimley go insane. Carpenter is frankly surprised by the film's latter-day esteem. ''When The Thing was released,'' he says, ''it was one of the most hated movies of all time.'' Time to set the record straight.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 14:01:32 GMT -5
THE EVIL DEAD (1982) Directed by Sam Raimi Before he was the webmaster of the Spider-Man franchise, Sam Raimi was a college dropout with $385,000 and a nightmare. Plotwise, The Evil Dead is just your basic ''kids at a remote cabin in the woods foolishly read forbidden book and unleash demons'' movie. But the result was a template for a generation of horror filmmakers, thanks to the wry Bruce Campbell (as ''Ash'' Williams, in the performance that made him a cult horror hero), those predatory trees, and Raimi's wickedly inventive direction. The furiously racing tracking shots came from what Raimi dubbed ''the Shaky-Cam,'' a camera mounted on a two-by-four carried by two operators who would run like hell when Raimi yelled, ''Action!'' As he told EW, ''When we made Evil Dead, I wanted [viewers] to jump and scream and feel my wrath!'' We're still feeling it.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 14:01:48 GMT -5
CARRIE (1976) Directed by Brian De Palma De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's first novel is set in the lurid, oversexed world of high school, where persecuted telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) transcends catty rivals and a psychotically religious mother (Piper Laurie) to become prom queen — only to be doused in pig's blood, go on a murderous rampage, and kill just about everyone. ''I got tricked into doing [Carrie],'' says Laurie, who, like Spacek, won an Oscar nomination. ''It seemed so over-the-top, I thought it was going to be a satire. When De Palma stopped me in rehearsals, my heart just dropped. Whoops!'' Pioneering moment: the best final scare ever. Period.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 14:02:31 GMT -5
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Directed by George A. Romero The horror movie whose zombie escapades inspired a thousand more, Dead was filmed in black and white for about $100,000, some of which was reportedly contributed by lead actor Russell Streiner. Although the film, about radiation-poisoned corpses on the hunt for fresh meat, was made on the cheap (any flub in the sound was covered with the chirping of crickets), the total gross has been estimated to be as high as $50 million. Because of legal problems with the original distributor, the filmmakers saw only a tiny fraction of the grosses, inspiring a remake in 1990. Stick with the original — the Blair Witch Project of its day.
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Post by Idle on Apr 7, 2009 14:02:49 GMT -5
THE OMEN (1976) Directed by Richard Donner Someday, an enterprising film student will write a master's thesis on why the Nixon-Ford era spawned the cinematic unholy trinity of Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen. Until then, let's just picture the last of those demon seeds, Damien (Harvey Stephens) — the tiny Antichrist with the 666 devil sign on his scalp — maniacally pedaling his tricycle and knocking Lee Remick over the second-floor railing to the menacing strains of ''Ave Satani.'' ''That boy was putty to direct...just a dream,'' says Donner, who adds, ''A lot of people were afraid to see The Omen because The Exorcist scared the s--- out of them so much.'' It's their loss, because when we picture Damien's nanny hanging herself while screaming, ''Damien, it's all for you!'' we still get freaked out.
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Post by Ducky on Apr 8, 2009 16:06:27 GMT -5
yay! M's won their home opener! KG Jr with the first run of the season, a homer! Well I'll be! then we lost the next day with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th with 1 on, only to give up 3 runs and lose. Go fuck yourself Brandon Morrow. I miss putz..
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Post by Funky George! on Apr 8, 2009 16:08:11 GMT -5
then we lost the next day with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th with 1 on, only to give up 3 runs and lose. Go fuck yourself Brandon Morrow. I miss putz.. lol, morrow is an awesome pitcher. he's just been hurt.
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